Jessica and Eric met while attending New York University, where both are graduates. Eric also graduated with a master’s degree in design for stage and film from NYU.

Jessica is a daughter of Georgia I. and Ralph A. Pabst of Milwaukee. She is a costume designer who, this year, worked on “The Heidi Chronicles,” on Broadway.

Eric is the son of Melissa J. Williams of Dublin, and Edward F. Southern Jr. of Pulaski. He is the stepson of Roger A. Williams of Dublin. Eric is the grandson of Peggy J. Jones and the late Kenneth Jones of Pulaski, and Edward F. Southern Sr. and the late Gloria W. Southern, also of Pulaski.

Eric is a lighting designer who, this year, worked on the dance performance “Play/Pause” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and “collected stories: memoir,” a musical performance in 2014 at Carnegie Hall. The groom is also an adjunct professor in the theater department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.